More than 4 in 10 French people do not wear a mask when they are sick, even with symptoms

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Flu, Covid-19: barrier gestures and vaccination, what do the French think?

October 15, 2024, launch of vaccination campaigns against influenza and Covid-19. With the possibility, for the target audience, of receiving both vaccine injections on the same day. According to a Public Health France survey on French people’s adherence to prevention measures against winter viruses, 59% of people eligible for vaccination against Covid-19 intend to be vaccinated.

If 29% of respondents said they wear a mask often or systematically in the event of symptoms, in the presence of vulnerable people or in busy places, 43% said they never wear one in these situations, and 7% never wash their hands. hands with soap or hydroalcoholic gel, according to the section on adherence to barrier gestures.

Regrettable

“We can only regret that in the event of symptoms, 43% of people say they never wear a mask,” declared the director general of Public Health France Caroline Semaille during a press conference on Monday, insisting on “the systematic adoption of barrier gestures, particularly in the event of symptoms and in the presence of vulnerable people.”

“Whatever the barrier gesture, the proportion of respondents declaring never respecting them was higher among men”, as well as “people in a situation of inactivity”, “unfavorable to vaccination in general”, “declaring not to being at risk of a severe form of Covid-19″, “residing in a rural area”, notes the survey.

As in 2023, for more than half of the respondents, the intentions to maintain or accentuate barrier gestures are “mainly motivated” by the return of a new Covid-19 epidemic, but this year “the desire not to not being sick or not contaminating those close to you is progressing.”

This publication coincides with the start of a double vaccination campaign against influenza and against Covid. The two vaccines are particularly recommended for French people most at risk of serious forms: 65 years and over, pregnant women, nursing home residents, caregivers, entourage of vulnerable people, etc.